Engineering Squad Lead (Mobile)

Overview

Engineering Squad Lead (Mobile)

(Hybrid, Cluj, Romania)

At Kingfisher, we're helping millions of customers improve their homes through great in-store and digital experiences. As part of the wider Kingfisher group, you'll be joining a business that includes B&Q, Tradepoint, Castorama, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş.

We're made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call more than 1,300 stores home, and operate across 8 countries. Our ambition is to become the leading home improvement company and build the largest community of home improvers in the world.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Annual performance bonus
• Employee referral bonus
• Private medical coverage (Regina Maria - Priority Plan)
• Option to extend coverage to your spouse or children at no extra cost
• Life insurance (Metropolitan Life)
• Eyeglasses vouchers
• Wellhub fitness membership (co-funded)
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, LEO Learning, and Bookster
• Fresh fruit bar and premium coffee
• Modern, collaborative workspace
• Hybrid work model
• Flexible working schedule
• 21 days of annual leave + extra days based on tenure (up to 25 days)
• Additional days off when public holidays fall on weekends
• Paid leave for special life events
• Meal vouchers
• Gift vouchers (up to 4 per year), offered for occasions like Christmas, Easter, March 8th, and June 1st

What's the job?

About the Role:

We are going through an exciting period of change and are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Engineering Squad Lead to join our B&Q Mobile Engineering team.

This role sits within the B&Q Mobile (Native) Loyalty Squad, responsible for delivering and evolving the loyalty experience across the B&Q & Tradepoint mobile applications. The squad plays a critical role in helping customers discover, join and engage with the B&Q & Tradepoint loyalty programmes, supporting customer retention, personalisation and long-term customer value.

You will lead a cross-functional squad focused on creating engaging, reliable and scalable customer experiences that increase customer engagement, drive loyalty programme adoption and support key business outcomes.

As an Engineering Squad Lead, you will combine technical leadership with people management responsibilities. You will be accountable for building a high-performing engineering culture, developing engineers, driving delivery excellence and ensuring the squad delivers meaningful outcomes for both customers and the business.Working closely with Product Owners, Designers and business stakeholders, you will help shape the technical direction of the mobile platform, guide architectural decisions and champion engineering best practices. You will balance the delivery of customer-facing features with long-term investment in platform health, reliability, security and performance.

If you're looking for an opportunity to lead talented engineers, influence technical strategy and make a meaningful impact on millions of customers, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing squad of mobile engineers.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on collaboration, quality and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product Owners, Designers and business stakeholders to deliver customer and business outcomes.
• Own the technical direction and delivery of features across the B&Q mobile loyalty experience.
• Drive engineering excellence through strong standards in quality, security, performance, accessibility and reliability.
• Support and mentor engineers through technical leadership, feedback and career development.
• Balance feature delivery, technical debt and platform improvements to enable sustainable delivery.
• Lead operational support activities and ensure a reliable customer experience.
• Foster collaboration across squads, engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Support recruitment and help grow the wider engineering organisation.

What you'll bring

Skills & Experience:

Leadership & Delivery

• Experience leading and developing engineers within agile product teams.
• Strong coaching, mentoring and people management skills.
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams and foster an inclusive culture.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience delivering outcomes through cross-functional squads.

Mobile Engineering

• Strong software engineering background with experience delivering native mobile applications.
• Experience working across iOS and Android platforms.
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, performance and engineering best practices.
• Experience delivering customer-facing mobile products at scale.
• Understanding of mobile analytics, experimentation and release management.

Engineering Excellence

• Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs and modern engineering practices.
• Passion for clean code, automated testing and continuous delivery.
• Experience guiding technical design and engineering standards.
• Understanding of observability, operational support and reliability engineering.
• Strong appreciation of security, privacy and data protection.

Desirable Experience

• Loyalty, rewards, membership or customer engagement platforms.
• Retail, e-commerce or customer-focused digital products.
• Customer identity, authentication and account management solutions.
• Experimentation, personalisation or data-driven product development.
• Working across multiple teams, markets or international organisations.

Additional Requirement

This role requires fluency in spoken and written English, as English is the primary working language across Kingfisher's engineering, product, platform and business teams.

Why Join Us?

You'll have the opportunity to lead a talented squad building experiences used by millions of customers, help shape the future of the B&Q mobile platform, and play a key role in growing one of our most important customer engagement channels. You'll combine leadership, delivery and technical expertise to create better experiences for customers while helping engineers grow and develop their careers.